Corsair Force Series 3

alaTest has collected and analyzed 940 reviews of Corsair Force Series 3. The average rating for this product is 4.1/5, compared to an average rating of 4.5/5 for other Solid-state drive for all reviews.

We analyzed user and expert ratings, product age and more factors. Compared to other Solid-state drive the Corsair Force Series 3 is awarded an overall alaScore™ of 90/100 = Excellent quality.

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Amazon.co.uk review summary for Corsair Force Series 3

alaTest has collected and analyzed 88 user reviews of Corsair Force Series 3 from Amazon.co.uk. The average user rating for this product is 3.9/5, compared to an average user rating of 4.5/5 for other Solid-state drive on Amazon.co.uk.

80% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

Amazon.com review summary for Corsair Force Series 3

alaTest has collected and analyzed 114 user reviews of Corsair Force Series 3 from Amazon.com. The average user rating for this product is 4.1/5, compared to an average user rating of 4.5/5 for other Solid-state drive on Amazon.com.

SandForce TRIM Issue & Corsair Force Series GS (240GB) Review

SandForce and TRIM—that has always been a tricky combination. SandForce SSDs have always behaved a bit differently when tortured and TRIM'ed due to their internal design. When a non-SandForce SSD is tortured, write speed degrades and sooner than later...

I may sound like a broken record but all SandForce SSDs except Intel's are more or less the same. While there are small variations in performance, the big picture is still alike. You have a few NAND choices but most manufacturers offer SSDs based on...

Corsair Force 3 120GB SSD review

Whatever SATA 3 based product is being thrown at us, we seem to be impressed with. And you know, it's just that we are not used to seeing such incredible speeds as we've been in that SATA 2 HDD domain for way too long. The Force 3 series SSD is again a...

Corsair Force Series F180 180GB SSD

There are many varieties of Solid State Drives currently on the market but at the root of them all the best in class use Sandforce controllers. The Corsair Force Series F180 180GB SSD does just that. With 285MB/s read and 275MB/s write speed, it's a...

Picking a good hard drive is not an easy task. Everyone likes to focus on the fact that the CPU, Motherboard and RAM and make up the heart of the computer. I would argue that your hard drive is just as important if not more important. If you’re...

Corsair Force Series 120GB SandForce SF-1200 SSD Review

Corsair has upped the ante with their Force Series drives by cutting drive provisioning, allowing 20% more capacity to be used. This helps the price per usable GB but will this hurt performance? Read on to see how the Corsair Force 120GB SSD does...

If you had been thinking about picking up the Corsair Force 100GB SSD, the 120GB version should help make that purchasing decision a ton easier. With 20% more available storage, three year warranty, the same great performance and a price per GB ratio...

Corsair Force Series 100GB SandForce 1200 SSD Review

The specifications Corsair has listed for the Force Series 100GB SSD drive are 285MB/s read and 275MB/s write which is well above the 260MB/s read/write specified by Sandforce. Pretty high expectations are being set by Corsair. We put it through our...

Although drive capacity is below some of its peers, the Corsair Force 100GB SSD is certainly one of the fastest SATA II drives available today and shows just how good the Sandforce SF-1200 controller really is. If you are looking for one of the fastest...

Corsair Force Series 3 120GB Solid-State Drive

The SSD market has finally gotten traction and that can be seen by the number of solid state drives being sold these days. However, there's still something lacking. Most of the drives being sold aren't performance-oriented drives. They are quicker...

So, should buy this drive? We think so. Priced at Rs. 10,499, the Corsair Force 3 120GB strikes a very good balance between speed and capacity. It’s roughly the same performance as the last Plextor drive we reviewed. Although, the capacity of this...

Corsair Force 3 120GB SSD Review

On May 16th, Corsair turned the enthusiast SSD market on its ear by announcing their new Force 3 series of drives. In and of itself, the Force 3

As good as or better than previous generation high end drives in many real world scenarios ; Great price to performance ratio ; Good warranty and support structure ; 2.5” to 3.5” adapter included free

ONFi 1.0 NAND does limit the performance ; Maximum” specifications for this drive paint an incorrect picture of its real world performance ; Lowered performance compared to most other SF2281 based drives ; Large performance variance from test to test ;...

On paper, the Force Series 3 120GB looks to be fighting an uphill battle in against some competing drives. It uses NAND built to an older

Corsair Force 3 120GB SSD Review

This month Kitguru has been at the forefront of many Solid State Drive reviews including the new models from ADATA and OCZ. Today we are looking at the new model from Corsair, the Force 3 120GB which is set to target a wide audience, offering high...

Edit June 2011: KitGuru were one of the first publications to get access to these drives. Since the review went live our unit developed an intermittent fault and we reported it to Corsair. The problems were not isolated and Corsair issued this...